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The [[Myth BustersMythBusters]] are well-known for not merely testing myths, but also pushing said tests to [[Serial Escalation|ridiculous extremes]]. Here are some of their [http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-top-25-moments/ most impressive achievements]:
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* You know that link up there, the external one? That is a [[Clip Show]] of the Top 25 [[Myth BustersMythBusters]] moments for Discovery's 25th Anniversary. The fact that they organized them for us is nice, but to put a link up for the whole two hour episode? Awesome.
* The Mythbusters ''built a lead balloon'' and made it float. The made a ''rocket'' out of ''meat''. In ''two days''. [[Iron Man (film)|With a BOX of SCRA-]] ...Ahem. Sorry.
** Also, anytime something is utterly destroyed, Adam's line "Well ''there's'' your problem!"
** Anytime they utterly destroy something. Especially explosively.
* Jaime Vendera got his CMOA on Mythbusters by [[Make Me Wanna Shout|shattering a glass with just his voice]].
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**** Pfeh. We should send Kamina a few sets of Mythbusters glasses.
** Topping that, the build team tried to see if a snowplow can cut a car in half. After busting it at normal highway speeds, they built a ''rocket-powered superplow'', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDAFRCFu0Sk sent it down the track at over 500 mph], and managed to ''split the car in half!'' '''''Including the engine block!''''' Not only that, but the superplow '''disentegrated!'''
* They built a shark-punching robot. That's just so awesome, it singlehandedly justifies the entire medium of television.
** Indeed, the Discovery Channel picked a shot of that bot in action, as a part of a series of network promos based on [[It Makes Sense in Context]] moments.
* If building and driving a speedboat made of frozen newpaper doesn't qualify as awesome, what does?
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* While testing whether it was possible to escape a car that had driven into a lake, the Mythbusters found that if you didn't open the car door immediately, then you had to equalize the pressure between the outside water, and the inside of the car, in other words, let water into the car through a window or otherwise, but discovering this wasn't the crowning moment of awesome. No, the crowning moment came several months later (as revealed on the Top 25 greatest Mythbusters moments) when Adam and Jamie received a letter from a fan. He said that he was a truck driver, who had a seizure while he was driving over a bridge. He came to in the middle of a lake, his cab slowly filling with water. Remembering what the Mythbusters said about escaping a sinking vehicle, he opened up his air vent, let the cab fill with water completely, opened the door, and swam out. The Mythbusters saved a person's life.
** ''Four other people'' wrote to them saying that what they showed saved their life.
* Dedicating an episode to not just busting moon landing hoax [[Conspiracy Theories]], but rhetorically stomping them flat, setting them on fire, [[To the Pain|and pissing on the ashes]]. They also [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSVfYwdGSsQ evaporated a car]. Not with explosives, mind; that's what they did to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynZxVErTovg&fmt=18 that poor cement truck]. No, this vehicular vaporization was caused by a hunk of metal ''crashing into the car at transonic speeds.'' Awesome in a ''classical'' sense.
* "[[Understatement|The cement truck went away...]]" The ''true'' Crowning Moment of Awesome of the show, however, may be the end of the "Top 25 Mythbusters Moments" special, in which they show ''all'' of the best explosions (a few dozen of them), including the cement truck going away, in one massive montage set to [[Crowning Music of Awesome|Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture]]. It's breathtaking, to say the least.
** It must be seen to be believed, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msYHQOkrRHE enjoy!]
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